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YEARS

of course, to the Manager of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars
and the Administrator of the Chancellery of the Administration.* To all other persons,
information may be provided only with the permission of the Chairman
of the Council of People's Commissars. Information about whether
a given question was discussed and, if not discussed, whether it was submitted
to the Council for discussion, or what direction the secretariat has given
to a question which for any reason could not be
placed before the Council of People's Commissars, must be provided
to all interested parties. Persons to whom the secretariat, in accordance
with this instruction, does not have the right to provide the information
they seek, must be directed to the appropriate People's
Commissariats or institutions, on behalf of which the given
question was submitted to the Council of People's Commissars.

This instruction must be accepted by the secretariat for
strict execution.

Circulate this instruction for the information of all Commissariats.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin.

13883

NOTE ON A LETTER FROM AN EMPLOYEE OF THE ADMINISTRATION
OF NORTHERN RAILWAYS*

4 May 1918

We will raise it today in the SNK (but then we'll have to call Stalin too).

26999

DIRECTIVE TO THE COMMANDANT OF THE KREMLIN

17 May 1918

To Comrade Commandant of the Kremlin

I propose that you proceed immediately with the restoration
of the Vladimirskie Gates (Kremlin tower facing the Historical
Museum), entrusting one of the architects to
* The letter reported on the difficult situation in the Murmansk region
and the Murmansk railway. On 4 May, the Council of People's Commissars
confirmed the necessity of urgently appointing an Extraordinary
Commissar to the Murmansk region.

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the directions of P. P. Malinovsky to submit an estimate and to oversee
the execution of the work.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin.

23472

TELEGRAM TO ARKHANGELSK

FORESTRY DEPARTMENT OF THE SOVIET REPUBLIC, COPY TO THE LOGGING OFFICE

28 May 1918

The Council of People's Commissars has in principle decided to issue loans to the cooperatives
for the rafting of logs and the preparation of firewood on condition that
the interests of the state are secured. The conditions, the procedure for issuing
loans, and the amounts of the loans will be worked out by a special commission within two days.
Continue the rafting. Large quantities of firewood will be needed.

Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Lenin

Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin.

23477

CIRCULAR TELEGRAM TO ALL SOVIETS

5 June 1918

The Council of People's Commissars confirms that all banks,
both the State Bank (People's Bank of the Russian Republic) and the
former private banks, are under the supervision of the Commissariat
of Finance. All commissars of whatever banks they may be,
whoever appointed them, as well as those of savings banks,
are obliged to execute the orders of the People's Commissar
of Finance.

The Council of People's Commissars reminds all Soviets and
all banking institutions that the strictest centralization
of all banking operations flows with absolute inevitability from
the entire policy of Soviet power and from all the decrees it has issued.*

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

Lenin

Printed from the original
signed by V. I. Lenin.